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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed	2011-03-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Dickinson
	First Name(s)	John
	Year of Birth	1815
	Year of Death	1876
	Entry	Born Dec. 28, 1815 : educated at Eton: son of a papermaker : entered no profession, but took up an independent line as a reformer of India : wrote letters on the cotton and roads of Western India, 1851 : became Honorary Secretary of the Indian Reform Society, formed in 1853, and was made its Chairman on John Bright's resignation of that office in 1861 : maintained a correspondence with the Maharaja Holkar of Indore : wrote India, its Government under a Bureaucracy, in 1852, and Dhar not restored, in 1864, besides other pamphlets and papers on Indian subjects : died Nov. 23, 1876.

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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each

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